Satellite technology is the newest tool for helping developing countries deal with climate change and natural disasters.
Satellites can measure conditions on the ground and share the data with communities. A partnership between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)(美国国家航空航天局) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)(美国国际开发署) has developed such a system called SERVIR.
SERVIR captures images and environmental data, like dangerous weather and changes in water resource use. Scientists put that information into complex computer programs. The results of the analysis are shared with people living in the affected areas, as well as governments and organizations, to help them react and prepare.
Dan Irwin is the director of the NASA SERVIR Coordination （协调）Office. He said that the SERVIR project shares important information with countries all over the world.
"So the main goal of SERVIR, really, is taking space-based information and making it available to people around the world so they can really address issues that they have in their countries, whether it be deforestation(森林砍伐), air quality... and bringing it down to village and making it available to people for better decision-making..."
Jennifer Frankel-Reed is the Senior Climate Change Specialist for USAID. She explained how SERVIR has helped warn Bangladeshis of flooding, and prevented people in El Salvador from eating unsafe seafood. In Kenya, which depends heavily on tea farming, farmers have avoided losing crops to rising temperatures.
Developed in 2004, SERVIR brought together the U.S. agencies with the World Bank and Central American Commission on Environment and Development(中美洲环境和发展委员会). The first center was established in Panama in 2005, but was closed in 2011. Other centers were established in Kenya, Nepal and Thailand between 2008 and 2014.
Both Mr. Irwin and Ms. Frankel-Reed said the project's goal was to empower people with information to help them grow.
The project now operates in more than 30 countries.
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